{"doc_desc":{"title":"Services Survey 2009","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-SER-2009-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data "}],"prod_date":"2012-05-20","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-SER-2009-V1.0","title":"Services Survey  2009","alt_title":"SER","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u062e\u062f\u0645\u0627\u062a - 2009"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Core Funding Group","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Finance Survey"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Producers"}],"copyright":"Economic Surveys Series, 2009 Main Results","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NOR","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","abbreviation":"NDL","role":"financial"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"financial"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":" diwan@pcbs.gov.ps   ","uri":" http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to issue of Report of  the economic surveys for the Palestinian Territory, which presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2009 as reference year.  These surveys cover most of the economic activities operating in the Palestinian Territory since 1994."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0:   Basic raw data, obtained from data entry (before editing).","version_date":"2010-11-20"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Services","vocab":"Statistical Definitions and Glossary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"economic conditions and indicators [1.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The central statistical offices in most countries place heavy emphasis on constructing sound databases for all activities within the services sector. PCBS\u2019 Services Statistics Program is part of the Economic Statistics Program, which is part of the larger program for establishing the System of Official Statistics for Palestine. PCBS initiated, in the reference year 1994, the economic surveys series. The series includes, in addition to the services survey, surveys on industry, internal trade construction-contractors, and transport and storage sectors for the purpose of establishing a time series data base of economic activities in line with international recommendations specified in System of National Account (SNA) 93 and in the UN manual for Services Statistics. The sampling frame for the different economic surveys was based on the findings of the 2007 Establishment Census conducted by PCBS. \n\nObjectives:\nThe objective of the survey was to obtain data on:\n\n1. Number of enterprises and persons engaged in services by activity and location.\n2. Value of output, intermediate consumption and stocks.\n3. Value added components.\n4. Payments and transfers.\n5. Capital formation.\n6. Contribution of the surveyed activities to the GDP and other National Accounts variables.\n\nTarget Population\n\nPCBS depends on the International and Industrial Classification of all economic activities, version 3, (ISIC - 3) by the United Nation to classify the economic activities.  All enterprises and establishments are classified according to the Establishments Census 2007, which works in agreement with (ISIC - 3).  \nThe services survey covers the following activities:\n1.\tHotels and Restaurants\n2.\tReal Estate, Renting and Business Activities\n3.\tEducation\n4.\tHealth and Social Work\n5.\tOther Community, Social and Personal Service Activities","time_periods":[{"start":"2009-01-01","end":"2009-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2010-01-03","end":"2010-05-28","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","geog_unit":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","analysis_unit":"enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU)","universe":"Sample from Services Enterprises (privet sector)","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"services survey contains:\n1. Identification data\n2. Data about establishment assets.\n3. Data about Purchasing goods for selling purpose\n4. Number of employees in a company and their compensations.\n5. Various payments and transfers \n6. Other output expenses\n7. Goods productions\n8. Goods Production Inputs\n9. Others Goods Production Inputs\n10. Revenues of Services Rendered to Others\n11. Indirect Fees and Taxes\n12. Various transfers and revenues \n13. Electricity and water\n\n\n\nThe objective of the survey was to obtain data on:\n\n1. Number of enterprises and persons engaged in services by activity and location.\n2. Value of output, intermediate consumption and stocks.\n3. Value added components.\n4. Payments and transfers.\n5. Capital formation.\n6. Contribution of the surveyed activities to the GDP and other National Accounts variables.\n\n\nConcepts and Definitions\n\nThis chapter presents the definitions of the concepts used in the preparation of the survey tools on which data collection and processing are based. These concepts and their definitions are based on international recommendations in the fields of economic statistics and national accounts while taking into account the particular aspects of the Palestinian Territory.\n\nStatistical Unit \nIt is an economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.\n\nPersons Engaged\nMales and females working in the enterprise including owners, self-employed, unpaid family members, or waged workers who receive their compensations in cash or in kind during a specific reference period. However, this term does not include trainees or those on assignments outside the enterprises or in long unpaid leaves. \n\nOutput\nIt is the value of the final products of goods and services produced by a certain establishment which is used by other units for self-consumed or for the purposes of self gross fixed capital formation. Production includes two categories: Final products and the so-called (under operating products). Production can be classified as follows: Market outputs, Outputs of private account. and  other non-market outputs. \nIntermediate Consumption\nIt is the  value of the goods and services consumed as inputs, used up or transformed during the production process. It is measured during a specific period in time in a way similar to measuring production. Intermediate consumption is estimated by purchase price, which is defined as the producers' price plus transportation and wholesale and retail trade margins. The value of the gross intermediate consumption on the level of the total economy is the same whether calculated by purchase or producers' price. However, on the detailed level, the two evaluations vary.\n  \nValue Added\nValue added is a central concept of production and refers to the generated value of any unit that carries out any productive activity. Gross value added is defined as the value of gross production less the value of intermediate consumption.\n\nCompensations of Employees\nCompensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, including social security contributions, payable by an enterprise to an employee in return for work done by the latter.\n\nTaxes on Product \nThose are taxes that are compulsory cash or in kind payments payable by producers to the general government. it consist of taxes on products payable on goods and services at production, sale, or exchange and other taxes payable on production by resident producers as a result of carrying out the production process.\n\nAssets \nIt is tangible or intangible (computer software, artistic original) that comes as an output of the production process .It is used frequently or continuously in other production process for more than one year period.\n\nDepreciation \nIt is the value of the assets which can be reproduced and depreciated during the year, depreciation is calculated on the current substitutive value.\n\nOperating surplus\nValue added minus (compensation of employees plus net taxes on production minus subsidies and custom fees plus depreciation).\n \nGross Fixed Capital Formation\n It is the value of what producers own less what they spend on new and used capital goods.\n\nMain Economic Activity\nIs the main work of the enterprise based on the  (ISIC, rev3) and that contribute by the large proportion of the value added, whenever more than one activity exist in the enterprise.\n\nWest Bank: \nMeans West Bank excluding those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israel in 1967.\n\nJerusalem ( J1):\nthose parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israel in 1967."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"Sample and Frame\n\nThe sample of the Services Survey is a single-stage stratified random - systematic sample in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU).  Four levels of strata were used to arrive at an efficient representative sample (i.e. economic activity, size of employment and geographical levels. The kind profit or non profit).  The sample size amounted to (2,267) enterprises out of the (24,024) enterprises that comprise the survey frame in the Palestinian Territory.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"They are two forms of the services survey questionnaire 2009 of the Palestinian Territory, the first one is related to household and branches, and the second is related to non-financial companies sector. The questionnaire contains the following main variables:\n1.\tNumber of employees in a company and their compensations.\n2.\tThe output of the main and second activities.\n3.\tGoods production inputs.\n4.\tVarious payments and transfers.\n5.\tTaxes on production and fees.\n6.\tEnterprises assets.","coll_situation":"Data Collecting\n\nQuestionnaire Test:\nDoing a primitive pretest during two days to make a technical study of the questionnaire, study the rejection and the data quality.\n\nWorkers Selection and Training:\nThe interviewers in the fieldwork are selected from the experienced ones in the statistical work and they are also trained theoretically and practically.\n\n Fieldwork operations:  \nThey are initiated after the recruitment and training of qualified interviewers.  The PCBS's Fieldwork Directorate administers fieldwork activities including interviewing activities.\n\nData Gathering Method:\nData are gathered by using an interview with the enterprise owner or general manager by applying the survey questionnaire.\n\nFieldwork Editing:\nThe interviewer and supervisor firstly edit technically the questionnaire according to editing rules.\n\nOffice Editing: \nThe office editor also edits the questionnaire in order to be ready to be sent to coding and data entry.\n\nCoding:\nAfter the editor finishes editing the questionnaire, a coding are used according to (ISIC - 3), then the questionnaire is transferred to data entry.","act_min":"For insuring data quality, a series of measures were taken in to a account that support accuracy  of data collection through the following:\n\u00b7Selection of specialized fieldwork team of economic back ground, the team was trained theoretically and practically on the survey questionnaire.\n\u00b7The main fieldwork team was selected according to the training course.\n\u00b7Field work visits by both fieldwork and project management staff for monitoring and following up data collection process and progress of work, An average of two visits for each governorate, a bout 90% of completed questionnaires was reviewed and corrected if needed, comments and notes were directed to the team accordingly.\n\u00b7Different levels of supervision and monitoring toke place a according to the following division:\nFieldworkers\nFieldworkers supervisors \nFieldwork coordinator. (Each of them has responsibilities in monitoring )  \n\u00b7Project management receive a daily progress report about completeness and response.\n\u00b7Conducting a refreshment training course during the stage of data collection for emphasizing the main issues of  training and answering questions of fieldworkers about issues faced them in the field.\n\u00b7We made another visit to some institutions which were visited by the researchers to confirm the accuracy of the data that have been given to researchers and that called the interview, these institutions has been selected randomly by withdrawing a random sample of 10% of the original sample of the survey, and then the data were compared with data from series surveys.","weight":"Weighting and Estimation\n\nThe sampling weight of the enterprise is the mathematical inverse of the probability selection of that enterprise. It is necessary to use weights in the estimation of the survey society because of the differentiation in the probability of enterprises' selection from another. The sampling weights were adjusted to compensate for non-responded Enterprises.","cleaning_operations":"Data processing:\nFor  insuring quality and consistency of data a set of measures were taken in to account for strengthening accuracy of data as follows:\n\u00b7Preparing data entry program before data collection for checking readiness of the program for data entry.\n\u00b7A set of validation rules were applied on the program for  checking consistency of data.\n\u00b7Efficiency of the program was checked through pre-testing in entering few questionnaires, including incorrect information for checking its efficiency, in capturing these information.\n\u00b7Well trained data keyers were selected and trained for the main data entry.\n\u00b7Weekly or by weekly data files were received by project management for checking accuracy and consistency, notes of correction are provided for data entry management for correction.","method_notes":"Notes on Data:\n           Exchange rates:\n        US $ \/ NIS = 3.9280\n              US $ \/ JD   = 0.7028"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"\u00b7\tSample size in 2009 of services sector was 2,290 enterprises (including economic activity change) in the Palestinian Territory:\n\u00b7\tNon-response cases:  645\n\u00b7\tOver coverage cases: 89\n\u00b7\tNet sample: 2,290-89= 2,201\n\u00b7\tResponse rate: 70.7%\n\u00b7\tNon-response rate: 29.3%","sampling_error_estimates":"Statistical Errors:\nThe findings of the survey are affected by statistical errors due to using sampling in conducting the survey for the units of the target population, which increases the chances of having variances from the actual values we expect to obtain from the data had we conducted the survey using comprehensive enumeration.. The variance of the key goods in the survey was computed and dissemination was carried out on the level of the Palestinian Territory  for reasons related to sample design and computation of the variance of the different indicators.\n\nNon-Statistical Errors\nThese types of errors could appear on one or all the survey stages that include data collection and data entry:\nResponse errors: these types of errors are related to, responders, fieldworkers, and data entry personnel's. And to avoid mistakes and reduce the impact has been a series of actions that would enhance the accuracy of the data through a process of data collection from the field and the data processing."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law No. (5) for Year 2000\n\nArticle (17)\n1. All individual information and data submitted to the Bureau for statistical purposes shall be treated as confidential and shall not be divulged, in whole or in part, to any individual or to a public or private body, or used for any purpose other than for preparing statistical tables. \n2. The Bureau shall endeavor to issue official statistical publications in aggregate tables, which do not disclose individual data, in conformity with the confidentiality of statistical data.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps  "}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2010.  Economic Surveys Series, 2009: Main Results.  Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"License Agreement for the Use of Micro Data in PCBS \nitems(10,11,12) as following:\n\n1. pledges  the utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof shall be limited to the purposes agreed upon including not granting any third parties any access to these data. Restrictions applies to any data duplication or transformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data analysis.\n\n2. Utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .\n\n3. pledges not to alter the value of any observation in the original \"data\"; nevertheless, this does not apply on subjecting data to any processes or procedures aiming to derive new variables. The first party does not bear any professional, administrative or financial responsibility for any losses incurred as a result of changes in the variables values.","disclaimer":"PCBS  provid  data collected for purely statistical purposes, and therefore does not assume any responsibility for legal or professional from any claim or analysis or interpretation or misuse of this data."}}}}